Faculty/Staff Meeting 
November 16, 2007, 10:30 – 12:00
CP 206C Conference Room

Minutes

In Attendance:  
Orlando Baiocchi	Larry Wear		Stephen Rondeau	Dan Zimmerman
Donald Chinn		Zaide Chavez	 	Sam Chung		Josh Tenenberg
Andrew Fry		Beth Jeffrey		Isabelle Bichindaritz	Menaka Muppa
Deb Smith		Ed Hong		Chris Rials

1.  Approval of Minutes from May 18, 2007 meeting

Motion:  to approve meeting minutes from May 18, 2007 with the following changes:  add Isabelle Bichindaritz, Beth Jeffrey and Sam Chung to May 18th attendance.
(Motion:  S. Chung Second:  L. Wear, approved)

2.	Updates- Orlando Baiocchi

Program Review – 
We have not received an official statement from the review committee. We have the exit interview comments from the review committee.  They found lots of good things, as well as things we need to improve on.  There were no issues with the quality of our program.  They were very impressed with the support from our Advisory Board, and the quality of technical services.  Issues that we need to look at are the rules for tenure and promotion. There were some personnel issues addressed that had to do with Staff, Sr. faculty, and Jr. Faculty.  The final decision will be made between May and June 2008.  

PARC – 
The Human Rights program was approved.  Our program was partially approved, the first part which is IT has the go to PARC.  PARC wants a graphical diagram showing the relationship between the new program, new courses required, new faculty, and resources associated with it.  Our Computer Engineering proposal was well received.  We need to follow-up with Diane Kinder to get the official statement.     

3.	New Business

A.	Updates on Technologies Available at UWT – Patrick Pow (10:30 am)

Patrick Pow gave updates and requested feedback on how his department could help us.  

1)	The Pinkerton Building has Wireless network.  Not all buildings have been upgraded some levels in the Science building, and the grand staircase have not been upgraded due to lack of funding. Most funding came from provost and students.
  
2)	The new degree program proposed by Sam and Ankur encourages using laptops in classrooms.  As member of the PARC Committee Patrick requested more funds to accommodate this.  Our current system does not accommodate multiple users.  We need more access points in classrooms.  New helpdesk is set-up to assist with teaching needs.   The extension for computer services is 2-4357.
  
3)	Podcasting classes are offered every quarter.  If you are interested, computer services can help set-it up for you. 

4)	Emergency management is available, you can subscribe to it.  A template has been provided to security services so that in an emergency situation a message can be sent through the webpage.  

5)	Flat panels are used for announcements.  They are currently only available to students. His department is trying to make it available to academic programs. 

6)	If you want to know if students have learned certain concepts in the classroom, you can use Clicker (student response system).  

7)	Distance learning courses are part of the Strategic Plan.  We ran classes in Olympic college, TCC and Pierce College.  Technology sandbox is available at WG208.  You can get access through the keycard.    

8)	Training and Professional Development – Maybe our faculty can help with some of the training courses. We can coordinate training

Larry wanted to know why he can’t get the UWT website from outside on his MAC.  He can get to UW website.  

Orlando wanted to know if there was coordination between workshops that computer services does and what Stephen does.  Patrick thought that that issue can be further discussed in the future.

B.	ITS Degree Progress - Ankur & Sam
 
Sam distributed examples of articulation agreements with community colleges and UW Seattle.  Questions asked.  First, if the articulation with community colleges has 100 and 200 level courses.  some count as lower division credits at the UW Seattle.  Upper Division Example: TCC Math 108 and 109 Intro to Statistics, on the next page it is 311 from UW Seattle.  This is a requirement course to students majoring in Statistics.  If you have 108 and 109 you can get 5 and 3 credits total 8.  UW Seattle gives you 5 credits for 311. If you take both courses the remaining 3 credits count towards 100 level general elective. They use the same system for other courses.  Sam, Elizabeth, and Ankur’s approach is to follow the same model as UW Seattle. This articulation comes from the equivalency guide used by UW Seattle and it is what Bothell uses.  It is a general requirement for us, but in the math and other departments, these courses are part of the core courses.  They were set by the Equivalency Review Board that is composed of Faculty and Staff.  We can make whatever decision we want regarding which courses will be accepted. 

A handout was provided from Dondi Hanson from Olympic College.  Sam would like to meet with Dondi to see what kind of articulation can be developed.  They chose 6 local community colleges, Olympic, Pierce, Highline, Tacoma, Green River, and Bellevue Community College.  Bellevue has a BS degree program with Eastern Washington.  We are looking for technology related programs from two Technical Colleges Bates and Clover Park.  Per Isabelle, Seattle has an agreement with Bellevue for a BS in Health Information Management.  Teaching contribution from community colleges is crucial for our program.  We are trying to get individual equivalent guides from community colleges that will work with our degree.  

C.	Discuss the schools and colleges issue – Orlando (eventually take a vote on how our 
faculty and staff view this issue)

Orlando gave a handout provided by Larry Crum regarding the Schools and Colleges issue.  Other units have taken a vote to see how faculty and staff feel about these changes.  So far, Donald has received three opinions from members of our department.  Orlando mentioned that our mission is a statewide mission. We need to expand our recruitment efforts beyond the Puget Sound area.  
Some of the questions that need to be addressed is whether or not the Institute should remain independent. What would be the advantage of being part of another unit? Interdisciplinary functions between departments would be one.  #6 Institute of Engineering and Science mentioned by Andrew Fry.  IAS would be glad to take in other units, but they don’t want to break theirs.  As the Institute of Technology we have acquired support from Industry and have a strong Advisory Board.  What would happen to our support if we were to become part of another unit?   How are we going to give our input to Donald? 

Per Orlando, we need to address the issue regarding the math faculty.  Math folks need to decide where they want to go.  There are two issues to deal with: 

1)	How faculty and staff feel about the name of our unit.

2)	Do we want Math faculty coming to our department.  If they did, how involved would they be 
with hiring procedures, and tenure and Promotion of our faculty? 
 
D.	Lecturer Contracts – Orlando

3 year lecturer – not affected
Part-time lecturer – Will depend on funding
Year by Year Contract – Will wait until more data is collected 

E.	Vote to replace Moshe in the campus-wide (Faculty Council) T and P committee 

Moshe volunteered to be part of the Campus wide Faculty Counsel Tenure and Promotion. However, Beth Rushing and members of the committee decided that because of confidentiality issues, duties cannot be performed using email.  Only senior faculty members can volunteer.  The two candidates are Larry Wear and Steve Hanks.  Vote will be performed via absentee vote.   

F.	Articulation between colleges and our program  - Sam 
Issue addressed in item B

Announcements

Per Orlando, Larry Crum, Ankur, and Don McLane were not able to attend.

Larry Wear – Book orders need to be submitted on time.  Beth having information session tomorrow and would like someone to come and address issue with 305 course.  Menaka volunteered.